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DSM-style diagnostic criteria often require distress or impairment. We distinguish four questions: why a condition belongs in psychiatric classification, whether an individual meets its criteria, how significant it is for that person and what response is warranted. Distress and impairment should not be universal requirements for individual diagnosis.
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